Rubber overshoe.



FREDERIC C. HOOD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

RUBBER ovERsHoE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Pat-exited nec. 17,1907.

Application filed November 10. 1906. Serial No. 342,883.

To all whom it 'may concern:

citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, (Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Imprmf'cments in -Rubber Overshoes, ofwhich the following is a speci-o fication.

My invention relates to improvements in rubberovershoes, andparticularly to overshoes having an elastic upper.

The object of the invention is to prevent liability of the shoe breakingalong the edge where the upper joins the sole; or when slices are madewith a rigid frictioned strip called iping, of the upper cracking alongthe e ge of the strip, or 1n other words where the elastic part joinsthe rigid art.

'lhe invention includes t e particular construction hereinafterdescribed and. partielllarly pointed out in the appended claims.

An overshoe embodying the invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing in which,-

. vent t Figure 1 is a view of a complete overshoe, partly broken away.Fig. 2l is an enlarged partial cross section, and Fig. 3 is a detailView of the reinforcing strip.

In this drawing the numeral 4 designates an overshoe which isrepresentative of any ordinary or desired style of shoe.

The up )er is indicated by the numeral 5 and the solle by the numeral 6.In ovcrshoes as ordinarily made, they frequently break or crack at ornear the junction of the sole and upper or when a piece known as ipingis used they crack at the junction of t e edge of the pipling and theupper, and in order to pree breaking or craekingat these points, and tomake a secure junction between. the upperand sole, I provlde a strip ofbias cut fabric (7) which has been "frictioned and which has a strip ofrubber (8) eutmidingbeyond one edge. y

The rubber strip as shown extends over a portion only of the surface ofthe fabric and projects beyond the edge so that one edge of the striphas a fricticned fabric only, while the other edge is of rubber only,and intermediateofthcse is a composite portion of i rubber andfrictioned fabric, rubber on one Be it known that I, FREDERIC C. HOOD,

side and frictioned fabric on the other. This reinforcing strip isapplied with the rubber side (8) next to the lining 9 of the shoe andwith the frictioned'fabric edge (7) extendingdown underneath the insole.By this arrangement I secure at the edge of the sole or corner of theshoe an alternate arrangement of rubber and frictioned fabr'icwhichgives a very firm union 5 while just above the edge of the strip, due tothe extension of the rubber (8) I secure a thickened rubber portion asindicated between the lines a-a and b-b. The bias cut frictioned fabrictransfers the strain in a gradually reduced manner from the edge of thesole to the point indicated by dotted lines bvb and 'the rubberextension (8) transfers it again to the point a-e and both therubberextension (S) and the frictioned fabric (7) are put on in such amanner that a muchfirmer connection is secured and all danger of'cracking along the lines of j unction is avoided through the thoroughdistribution of the strain.

Having thus described my invention what l claim is .1. In a rubberovershoe the combination with the upper and sole of a reinforcing stripat the` unction thereof comprising a bias strip of frictioned fabrichaving one edge provided with a facing of rubber said rubber beingextended beyond the edge substantially as described.

2. In a rubber overshoc the combination with` the elast-ic upper and thesolo; of a rcinforcing strip located at the junction of the upper andsole, said. reinforcing strip comprising a layer of fabric and a layerof rubber, the rubber projecting above the upper edge of the fabric andsecured to the upper, and the f abric extending below the Vlower edge ofthe rubber and engaging the solo.

In testimony whereof, l aliX my signatun` in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERIC HOOD.

